How do use athletic tape?

I continue to jam the hell out of my middle fingers when training with the gi. I'm trying to take my competition to the next level and need to find a method to tape them. My old coach had a good method but I honestly forgot how he did it. I'm looking for ways to prevent jamming as well as support current fingers. It's the middle knuckle of the middle finger. If you guys have any links or videos of how to tape up fingers and toes that would be great.

I have the same very problem and am interested in a solution as well. My right middle finger is open, skin gone etc. from the last two weeks. So today I bought tape but two things really are bad: If I use the normal width, I can't move my finger enough. If I cut it in half and start training, it comes off.

I don't, personally, like winding thin strips around the finger when still attached to the roll, because you tend to make it too tight, cut of circulation and prevent movement. It might work for you though.

Ah, haven't seen that kind of tape yet (have the standard issue Alex Athletics tape). Might go to search for it because this is small and not so wide. At the moment the only thing important is the top of my fingers (hurts like hell to grip into a Gi with no skin protecting the flesh...)

Ah, haven't seen that kind of tape yet (have the standard issue Alex Athletics tape). Might go to search for it because this is small and not so wide. At the moment the only thing important is the top of my fingers (hurts like hell to grip into a Gi with no skin protecting the flesh...)

I'm normally ok with my toes so rarely if ever have to tape them. For a big toe I just get some reasonably wide strips and just wrap from above to below the joint to give it support.

How are you jamming your fingers by the way? Standard practice would be to tape it to the ring finger so you've got a kind of reverse live long and prosper. Make sure to put a piece of tape on the sides of your fingers if you're going to do that though. Otherwise they'll chafe horribly.

There's a really good section on finger taping at the end of Pedro and Ferguson's Underground grip fighting secrets, but I've only got it as .avi files and my video editor can't open them. Otherwise I'd cut it and post it.